Hello 2024 !! - MyShadowProductions #155

Hello 2024!

12 months, 52 weeks, 366 days (yes, it is a Leap Year:), 8,784 hours, 527,040 minutes, 31,622,400 seconds (hope my math is correct :) and MORE LIFE !!

The photo above is my first “MyShadow” photo, taken by accident, in Denver’s City Park on my initial Sanity Walk in April of 2020, yes, that year :( This photo gave me the idea for naming my “Blog” and gave me an idea to try and include a MyShadow photo in future Posts. 

I put the Posts together on an IPad and I almost exclusively take photos in landscape  so my feeling is that the Posts are best viewed on an IPad or Laptop but some have told me that viewing on their phone works just fine :) 

Themes that I like to share at random times in my Posts are:

MyShadow

Sanity Walks

Sunsets & a random Sunrise 

Botanic Gardens

Day Trips

Holy Cow(s)

Lucky Dog(s)

Street Art & Art

Cats Meow

Popotillo (Straw Marquetry) (to me, an amazing Art, very endangered and under appreciated)

Custom Paint By Number Painting (just ordered another from a Costa Rica photo)

HAIKU Poetry 

To see examples of each (when looking at the full/web version of the website) you can look through the “Labels” column and click the Label to see Posts that include the item (sometimes in the video) See photo below:

I also usually include at least one “movie/video” that is created from my photos regarding the recent Post. I am going to change this wording to “video” for simplicity sake/lack of a better term :)

One of the grocery stores close to me is Super Mercado El Güero, a 12 minute walk, east up Galena Blvd :)

It is a nice, very comfortable local grocery store with a very definite selection of Mexican food items and a very good place to improve my Spanish by reading, listening and speaking.

I took some photos (mainly in Produce) to try and give an idea of the variety. 

The quantity of the items catches my eye, clearly the items are wanted and purchased, not just a novelty item. I have googled several to see what they are and how they are prepared, like the Cactus Petals, the Sugar Cane, the Maguey, etc.

Here are a few of the photos:

                 Still a large quantity despite the mirrors :)

CLICK HERE for a quick 1 minute 39 second trip to a Mexican Super Market, Olé.

An added touch in the Mercado that my video doesn’t have, is the Mexican music playing on the store’s speakers :) 

Here are some photos of the Fox River and Aurora, very early (like 5pm) on New Year’s Eve !! Nothing special, no ice, no snow, no kayakers lol, just a moment in the last hours of 2023 :)

                  Happy New Year !!!

P.S. - I still follow a YouTube series called “Itchy Boots”. 

It is a 30 something girl from Netherlands traveling the world on a motorcycle. 

She has been doing the videos for 6+ years I think. In my opinion she does a great job of sharing “the world” through her mostly dirt road travels in 20+ minute videos posted on Wednesdays and Sundays. She only has about 2.5 million followers:)

It may or may not be something you enjoy but please give it a look. 

Right now her travels are in West Africa. I enjoy seeing places I know that I will never get to travel to.

Click Here for her latest video :)